Q. What is a Bot?
A. The word is derived from 'robot', and refers to a computer program that gathers information or performs a service, usually on some regular, predetermined schedule. A bot (sometimes called an agent) typically searches the Internet, gathers information relevant to your query or interest, and presents it on a scheduled basis, hourly, daily, weekly, etc.
DealPilot - checks out prices, availability, plain shipping time and shipping costs of your book at over 20 online stores with over 20,000,000 pricing informations simultaneously
Deja News - search by topic over 15,000 Usenet groups with results returned chronologically arranged
FinanceWise - assists in accessing banking and finance information on the World Wide Web
Firefly - access to personalized content, community, and services at sites using Firefly's software
MegaWeb - meta-search crawler that searches in
individual or parallel in more than 30 search engines, search indexes, directories, software, people finders, Usenet news, dictionaries, domain names, movie and book databases.
Plangent - a software realizing intelligent agents which can work on the Java language system.
PriceWatch - helps do comparison shopping for computer parts with prices ranked from less expensive to most expensive
Reference.com - searches for information in mailing lists and Usenet groups with results emailed daily
RoboBear - performs FAST automated searching, downloading and decoding of Usenet newsgroup articles.
RoboShopper - automatically query online stores and then display the results in a convenient report, so you easily compare and make the best buying decision
Search Engine Watch - information about many search engines, including comparisons.
SearchPad - an intelligent way of searching for information on the Internet
Virtual Secretary Project, The - user-model-based intelligent software agents, which could in most cases replace human secretarial tasks, based on modern mobile computing and computer network
AdHound - search the classifieds of hundreds of US newspapers daily with relevant ads emailed
WebFerret - freeware assists in location information on the Internet; searches can be narrowed bychoosing to match any keyword, match all keywords or by submitting the keywords as an exact phrase
Webglimpse -search engine for finding information in a related web of pages.
WebSnake -searchs and retrieves files from the World Wide Web